Daina Teters is Professor of Cultural Semiotics and Philosophy at the Latvian Academy of Culture, Riga. Since 2005, she has been the Head of the International Research and Arts Project MetaMind. She has published more than two hundred scholarly articles, in addition to the books Metamorphoses of the Mind: Out of One’s Mind, Losing One’s Mind, Light-mindedness, Mindlessness (2008), and Metamorphoses of the World: Traces, Shadows, Reflections, Echoes and Metaphors (2010).

Otto Neumaier is Associate Professor at the University of Salzburg, Austria. His publications include Mind, Language and Society (1984), Applied Ethics in a Troubled World (1998), Ästhetische Gegenstände (1999), Moralische Verantwortung (2008), Facing Tragedies (2009), and Outsider Art (2017).